Xe Services, formally known as Blackwater, is looking for a buyer, according to recent news reports. The organization, which operated in Iraq and has contracts in Afghanistan, also has extensive training facilities in North Carolina as well as an expanding presence in Asian markets and manufacturing. “Xe’s new management team has made significant changes and […] More

MITRE CTO Dr. Stephen Huffman has built an impressive career at the corporation over the last two decades.  He spoke with ExecutiveBiz about his and MITRE’s road to the present and what he wants to see from the firm in the coming months. ExecutiveBiz:  How have you see MITRE change over the last twenty-two years? […] More

Steve Hawkins currently serves as vice president of Information Security Solutions at Raytheon, a position he took after spending his career at the company covering areas ranging from airborne radar systems and signals intelligence to commercial imagery and his current field of cybersecurity. Here, he talks about challenges in the cyber realm, the dangers of […] More

John Koenig started his career at Harris Corporation in the mid-1980s, working in the government systems group. He left Harris briefly to pursue projects in telecommunications, only to return to a company whose environment he calls “challenging, demanding, fair, exciting.” In an interview with TheNewNewInternet, he talked about his work as vice president of operations […] More

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano responded to President Obama“™s intent to nominate John S. Pistole as Assistant Secretary for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), praising Pistole’s expertise.  Pistole becomes the third candidate to be nominated for the position by Obama. “John“™s national security and counterterrorism expertise will be a great asset to […] More

Bud Langston serves as vice president of Oracle’s North American Public Sector. In his role, he manages major public sector strategic accounts across federal, state, local and provincial government and tribal markets for America and Canada. After serving in the U.S. Navy for more than three decades, Langston retired as rear admiral and joined Oracle […] More

Recently, ExecutiveBiz had the opportunity to sit down with David Melcher of ITT Defense & Information Solutions. He spoke about the impact ITT has on the average customer, what makes a good acquisition and lessons learned from reorganization. ExecutiveBiz: Tell us about ITT Defense? David Melcher:  ITT Defense & Information Solutions is a Top-10 U.S. […] More

Mike Gaffney comes to his role as president of CSC“™s North American Public Sector Civil and Health Services Group with a pretty long view “”19 years, at the company, to be exact. Most recently, Gaffney served as president of business development for the public sector unit, a vantage point that allowed him visibility into all […] More

This week, W. Robert Grafton joined the SRA board and Stanley appointed a new COO – Jim Brabston. Also, CSC decided on Irv Halter to head up it’s Space and Aviation division and ICF’s New Dehli office will now be led by Nitin Zamre. More

Introduction Good morning, I want to thank Aviation Week for organizing this event.  The theme of this Forum is “Protect Your Enterprise with Secure and Resilient Information Flow.“  This is certainly a timely and important subject.  I know a number of the outstanding people on the program today, and I am sure that this will […] More

IBM has partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct research and development project to help secure the civilian aviation system from cyber threats. IBM will build a prototype security system which is scalable to work on the FAA’s high speed networks. “The prototype system will go beyond traditional security approaches of encryption, firewalls, […] More

This week saw SRA win a half-billion dollar BPA from the USDA, while SAIC claimed a SSC Pacific support deal. Harris got more orders for the Falcon III radio, ExxonMobile won an aviation fuel contract and BAE inked a deal to provide weapons to Norway and Sweden. Northrop was awarded an Army training deal and […] More